Statistical Science News
- Archive News
- Dr Maria De Iorio elected to board of International Society for Bayesian Analysis
- A First Course in Machine Learning by Dr Simon Rogers and Professor Mark Girolami published
- Dr Gianluca Baio awarded grant from Sanofi Pasteur Merck Sharpe and Dohm
- Professor Patrick Wolfe to join Department
- The IT Future of Medicine project to present at the FET Flagship Midterm Conference in Warsaw
- Professor Mark Girolami and Professor Sofia Olhede to speak at Royal Society
- Team involving Dr Gianluca Baio awarded grant funding in excess of £1.7m
- Biostatistics research theme enjoys continued grant success
- Dr Ardo van den Hout to join Department
- Inaugural UCL and Partners' Biostatistics Network Symposium a Success
- 6-7 studentships available for applicants from UK/EU for the MSc in Statistics programme 2012-13
- Dr James Nelson involved in defence consultancy role
- Dr James Nelson awarded a £96k EPSRC grant
- Dr Serge Guillas awarded 30,000 euros of funding from PASCAL2
- Professor Mark Girolami to speak at PEDS-II Workshop
- Dr Gianluca Baio to give talks at two conferences later this year.
- PhD Studentships in Statistics Available: “Big Data” and its Applications
- Professor Valerie Isham to speak at Princeton Symposium
- Professor Valerie Isham to visit Mathematical Biosciences Institute in Columbus, Ohio
- Dr Ricardo Silva awarded an EPSRC First Grant
- Dr Alexandros Beskos awarded an EPSRC First Grant
- Dr Yvo Pokern: Nonparametric Drift Estimation for Stochastic Differential Equations
- Senior Research Fellowship Award Success
- PhD Studentships in Statistical Science
- Dr Soo Ling Lim: App Store simulation research reported in New Scientist
- Dr Gianluca Baio: Novel health economic evaluation of a vaccination strategy to prevent HPV-related diseases: the BEST study
- Professor Valerie Isham to speak at Conference on Statistical Methods for Infectious Diseases
- Joanna Kaczmarska and Professor Valerie Isham to speak at Workshop on Stochastic Weather Generators
- Dr Ricardo Silva to speak at BeneLearn 2012
- Lecturer in Statistics Vacancy
- Research student Michael Epstein awarded best poster prize at the Second Annual CLMS Symposium
- Dr Ben Calderhead and Professor Mark Girolami awarded HECToR Distributed CSE funding
- Dr Rumana Omar awarded MRC funding for prognostic modelling research
- Dr Ricardo Silva to speak at workshop on networks
- UCL Statistical Science to lead consortium in risk and uncertainty for natural hazards
- R package BCEA (Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis) now available for download
- Dr Simon Byrne awarded EPSRC Fellowship
- Fully Funded PhD Studentships in Statistical Science x2
- Imperial - UCL Joint Statistics Symposium
- Paper jointly authored by Dr Christian Hennig to be presented as read paper at RSS Ordinary Meeting
- NIPS paper by Dr Ben Calderhead accepted for publication
- Professor Mark Girolami awarded EPSRC funding to lead UK research network on computational statistics and machine learning
- Dr Gianluca Baio invited to speak in Turin
- Dr Gareth Peters invited to speak at the University of Lille
- Dr Nikolaos Kantas and Dr Gareth Peters speak at the Ecole Polytechnique
- Dr Gareth Peters joins Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance
- Professor Valerie Isham jointly awarded Australian Research Council Grant
- Dr Gianluca Baio invited to give a short course in Rome
- Dr James Nelson awarded fully funded 4 year studentship in statistical signal processing and machine learning
- Dr James Nelson awarded research contract with Atlas Elektronik
- Team led by Dr Gianluca Baio awarded research grant from the MRC
- Dr Gareth Peters awarded UK-ASEAN Knowledge Partnership Mobility Scheme grant
- Dr Gareth Peters invited to present at international conference on banking in Sumy, Ukraine
- Mathematical and Physical Sciences Graduate Open Day - 23 January 2013
- Dr Serge Guillas awarded funding from UCL Business to study tsunami risk
- Professor Mark Girolami awarded EPSRC funding to advance Interactive Machine Learning as an emerging theme of ICT research
- Research team including Dr Gianluca Baio funded by the MRC
- Professor Mark Girolami appointed Editor-in-Chief of Statistics and Computing
- Dr Codina Cotar to speak at four conferences later in 2013
- Dr Codina Cotar invited to MSRI, Berkeley
- Dr Ioannis Kosmidis' work on the estimation of models for ordinal responses to appear in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B
- Warwick Public Lecture in Mathematics and Statistics
- Team including Dr Gianluca Baio awarded research grant by Alzheimer's Society
- Dr Gareth Peters awarded Royal Society International Exchange Grant
- Dr Gareth Peters invited to present several seminars on financial modelling
- Dr Christian Hennig awarded EPSRC standard research grant
- Dr Christian Hennig to speak in the president's invited session at IFCS 2013, Tilburg
- Professor Patrick Wolfe receives 5-year research fellowship
- Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Statistical Science Now Available
- Dr Gareth Peters a cooperative researcher in Japanese KAKENHI grant success
- Meeting on variable selection and dimension reduction in clustering and classification
- Dr Aidan O'Keeffe to join MRC-funded project within the department
Archive News
5 December 2011
- Professor Mark Girolami, Professor David Balding (UCL Genetics Institute) and Professor Michael Stumpf (Imperial College London) are the editors of the Handbook of
Statistical Systems Biology just published by Wiley. Systems Biology is
emerging as an important part of modern day research in the life sciences and
this handbook addresses the statistical issues that arise in the formal
modelling and reasoning over mechanistic model representations of biological
systems. [13/10/11]
- Professor Valerie Isham took part in the recent workshop "Networks: Stochastic Models for Populations and Epidemics" at ICMS, Edinburgh. [16/9/11]
- A study involving work by Professor Sofia Olhede shows that babies can distinguish painful stimuli as being different from general touch at 35-37 weeks gestation. Read: New Scientist, ABC News, Daily Mirror, Herald. [9/9/11]
- Dr Giampiero Marra has been awarded an EPSRC grant on the topic of "Semiparametric Sample Selection Models with Applications in Biostatistics, Economics and Environmetrics" over 14 months. This will allow Dr. Marra to develop flexible simultaneous equation estimation methods for studies affected by sample selection bias and to collaborate with several Universities including the School of Public Health, Harvard. [9/9/11]
- Professor Mark Girolami will deliver the 2012 Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Lecture to be given during the 24th Nordic Conference in Mathematical Statistics. [24/8/11]
- Professor Mark Girolami is Program Chair for AISTATS 2012. [24/8/11]
- Professor Valerie Isham attended the 2011 World Congress of the International Statistical Institute in Dublin, and delivered a lecture to the International Young Statisticians satellite meeting. [20/8/11]
- In recognition of teaching and research excellence, Dr Paul Northrop and Dr Hilde Wilkinson-Herbots have been promoted to senior lectureships in the latest round of UCL senior staff promotions. [4/8/11]
- Ben Calderhead has recently been awarded a Research Fellowship
in Mathematical / Computational Modelling of Complex Natural Systems
within UCL’s interdisciplinary research centre, CoMPLEX, and will be funded
by the EPSRC Cross-Disciplinary Interfaces Programme (C-DIP) in
collaboration with University of Oxford and Microsoft Research Laboratory,
Cambridge. [1/8/11]
- Dr Gianluca Baio has been contacted by Chapman and Hall and has agreed terms to publish a book on Bayesian statistical methods for health economic evaluations. The book will explore the issues underlying the economic assessment of health interventions and provide insights on the statistical methodology required. Publication is expected by the end of 2012. [20/7/11]
- In July-August 2011, Professor Valerie Isham has an honorary position as an Academic Visitor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Australia. While in Melbourne, as well as giving a seminar to the Department, she will be addressing the Australian Statistical Society.
- Dr Afzal Siddiqui (together with PI Derek Bunn of the London Business School) has been awarded a small research grant entitled "An Options Approach to UK Energy Futures" from the UK Energy Research Centre. This one-year, £130k project will develop a high-level, decision-analytic framework within which to assess UK energy decarbonisation options. [16/5/11]
- Dr Paul Northrop has recently published a paper in Environmetrics: Threshold modelling of spatially dependent non-stationary extremes with application to hurricane-induced wave heights. This work, which resulted from research conducted with Dr Philip Jonathan of Shell Research UK, has been selected to become a discussion paper. [15/5/11]
- On the 4th May, Dr James Nelson presented a talk entitled "Fractal dimension, wavelet shrinkage, and anomaly detection for mine hunting in sonar imagery" at the University Defence Research Centre Industry Day. This was attended by defence researchers in academia, government, and industry. This described some extensions to the recent work described in Nelson and Kingsbury (2010). [12/5/11]
- Dr Serge Guillas has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Research Fellowship on the topic of "stratospheric ozone and climate change" over two years (2011-2012). This allows Dr. Guillas to collaborate with several US agencies (NOAA, NCAR) and Universities (Illinois, Harvard) to perform this research, and exploit the UCL supercomputer Legion for advanced numerical simulations. [12/5/11]
- The Department of Statistical Science are a lead partner on the large EU FP7 Project ASSET "Analysing and Striking the Sensitivities of Embryonal Tumours". Professor Mark Girolami is leading the mathematical and statistical modelling effort in studying the structures of cell signalling deregulation in these childhood cancers. [12/5/11]
- Professor Valerie Isham gave an invited talk at
a Workshop on Probability and Discrete Mathematics in Mathematical Biology held
at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore. [7/5/11]
- Professor Mark Girolami, the Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Professor Girolami was chosen in recognition of his significant contributions to the field of Computational Statistics (Press Release). [11/3/11]
- Dr Ricardo Silva has been awarded a Winton Research Prize. The Winton Research Prizes Scheme is a programme of small, non-earmarked monetary research prizes made to researchers who in Winton's opinion are making outstanding contributions in their fields. [23/2/11]
- Professor Valerie Isham gave a plenary invited talk at the 2011 annual ANZIAM Conference in Adelaide, Australia. She also gave an invited talk in Canberra to members of CSIRO and the Australian National University. [2/2/11]
- The Department of Statistical Science centenary celebrations took place on 18 January 2011. [18/1/11]
- Professor Valerie Isham has now taken over as the president of the Royal Statistical Society. [1/1/11]
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